Brooke, Carly, Vezzoli, Andrea 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8059-0113, Higgins, Simon J ORCID: 0000-0003-3518-9061, Zotti, Linda A, Palacios, JJ and Nichols, Richard J ORCID: 0000-0002-1446-8275
(2015)
Resonant transport and electrostatic effects in single-molecule electrical junctions.
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 91 (19).
195438-.
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Abstract
In this contribution we demonstrate structural control over a transport resonance in HS(CH$_{2}$)$_{n}$[1,4 - C$_{6}$H$_{4}$](CH$_{2}$)$_{n}$SH (n = 1, 3, 4, 6) metal - molecule - metal junctions, fabricated and tested using the scanning tunnelling microscopy-based $I(z)$ method. The Breit-Wigner resonance originates from one of the arene $\pi$-bonding orbitals, which sharpens and moves closer to the contact Fermi energy as $n$ increases. Varying the number of methylene groups thus leads to a very shallow decay of the conductance with the length of the molecule. We demonstrate that the electrical behaviour observed here can be straightforwardly rationalized by analyzing the effects caused by the electrostatic balance created at the metal-molecule interface. Such resonances offer future prospects in molecular electronics in terms of controlling charge transport over longer distances, and also in single molecule conductance switching if the resonances can be externally gated.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cond-mat.mes-hall, cond-mat.mes-hall, cond-mat.mtrl-sci |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2018 07:22 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 06:38 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.195438 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3018698 |
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